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"In the UK, in a public space you have no reasonable expectation of privacy & cannot stop or prevent anyone from recording you in said public space. Despite thier protestations otherwise it is fully legit for members of the public to make visual records of interactions with the police / government members etc in public spaces or even private if you are the one who owns the private property (just make sure they cant hang a 'its for terrorist purposes' tag around your neck, as then it is illegal)

however if you do use home cctv, a couple of visible warning signs on the exterior of your home & make sure your cameras arent pointing deliberatly at the pavement/road (if you just happen catch a little due to lens / camera placement well thats fair game as i understand the legal position on it) and you should comply with UK law.

Re: Mobile

"Yes, for the love of $DEITY, would you please auto-redirect mobile browsers to the mobile version or ...."

NO NO NO NO NO <u>NO!</u>

My tablet has a 7 inch screen, less than a foot from my face, and a resolution of 1900x1200. I can therefore cope with more detail than many desktop usersl yet some sites insist on sending me to a crappy dumbed down version, with text you could read a mile away.

Evil. I thought the crappy practice of browser sniffing and presuming the users environment with fixed-size layouts died around the time I.E. lost it's grip..... I was wrongwrong.

I must live under a rock....

I know of the American "black Friday" event, but honestly had no idea it had come here until reading this website this morning.

Guess I've missed out!

Sales..... A funny old game. When people realise that sales are not due to the shop feeling charitable to consumers, maybe the mad frenzy will end.

As for Black Friday, if I owned a large chain of stores, I'd advertise "Black Thursday" and clear my stock of tat a day earlier, and presumably without needing to apply as much of a discount as I would if I was competing with everyone else.

What's with all the stupid codenames?

Re: Bullet

" Do you realise that he's probably given the worst ("worst" defined by the resultant damage to the USA) stuff to a trusted associate who is under instructions to release the whole lot if he disappears/dies under any kind of remotely suspicious circumstances?"

mk908ii android tv box - cost me approx 25 quid

Re: @Ledswinger

Seeing as you mention apps, I've bought a number of Android apps, and the system has no issue with me installing them multiple times from the Play Store to my tablets and my android-tv.

Could this be abused by sharing my google login with friends? Perhaps, but I feel more trusted, and know that I've spent more on apps in total than I would if they had draconian systems like the music industry which treat every customer as a criminal.

Re: Well known services...

And I said "independence", not "devolution", making a tongue-in-cheek jibe at the number being referred to as *National* in the context of "the whole country"

Anyway, why "of course" does it not apply to Wales? Scotland has it, and we get it next year, which shows that your unnecessary lesson on the devolved NHS (which everyone with half a brain knows already) is entirely irrelevant.

"An external entropy generator also provides more entropy, in terms of bytes per second, than the kernel gets simply from /dev/random. “Dev/random provides a few bytes per second,” he told Vulture South. “We provide about 64k bytes per second”."

This does sound like a great source of extra entropy, but there are non-blocking pseudogenerators considered secure as long as they are correctly seeded, so with proper operating systems, it's not simply a case of 'slow but good' / 'fast but suspect'.

Yarrow (the predecessor to Fortuna - https://www.schneier.com/fortuna.html ) gives 60MB a second on my modest server:

Re: Moan bitch ... starve?

"I would happily bet a considerable sum of money that if I survey the top 50 songs or movies from The Pirate Bay this month, that all of them were produced in the last fifteen years. Certainly for movies and if not all then very nearly all, for songs, as well"

So I take it you don't disagree with his point about copyright being too long? This, I believe *is* his point.

Whilst there is some merit in what he says, he conviently neglects to mention that the music companies have done everything to screw over the ordinary punter for ages. Yes, they screw over musicians too when they can, but that wasn't his point.

Overall, abuse in the industry is weighted in favour of musicians, not against them.

To my simple brain, the issue is quite simple

ISPs are facing higher costs because with services such as Netflix, people are swallowing more data than before.

Whilst Netflix may have highlighted the issue, they aren't the problem - the problem is that the ISPs have oversold their consumer packages, and now it's coming back to bite them.

Basically, if their current model is not sustainable, they need to charge more to the consumers who consume more data, and let the market sort it out (though I admit there are other issues to address here in the case of cable monopolies/duopolies)

Bottom line, why should Netfix pay more to feed in data (costs that would be passed onto the customer) meaning that ultimately, the cable companies would be charging more to watch a 3GB Netflix movie than it would to download a 3GB ISO.

The issue - the cost - is the amount of data, not the type, and if they have problems, they should charge the customer appropriately based on volume, and not offer unsustainable 'unlimited' packages at cost.

Re: Education

Re: The child

Well, the tweet say the son is "with other relatives", so who knows?

And aside from the obvious thoughts about him strangling her, and then posting pictures, what sort of sick fuck would plan it so that her 13 year old kid would discover her body? He could easily have tipped off the police before that happened.

Re: Motor failure or breakup?

Indeed, and humans will suffocate if they ever attempt to travel faster than 40 mph, and as they once said 'air travel isn't going to get any safer. If we attempt to leave this ground, we are going to die etc'

Re: Political Correctness gone MAD I tell you

"Never said it was just the monarchy but those who came with it fit the bill as well. Old Boys School tie types included. Anyone who talks with clenched teeth and patronizing manner as in "I'm special, you commoner"."

Is this the point where you start your 'quirky cockney' dance, after delighting us with that little speech no doubt voiced in a Dick Van Dyke style English accent?

Easy to circumvent if their only encryption is the https link...

Re: I hate DRM....

Th silly thing with DRM is that it simply does not stop copies being made available, as those who upload copies of things know how to circumvent it.

Put it this way. If someone wants a copy of some film/song/book/program etc. without paying, their first port of call will be the internet.

I don't think anyone thinks anymore: "I want to copy this, I'll buy it, copy it, and return it", or "I'll copy this off my mates", so they are never affected by DRM. The only people that are affected are the ones who have to put up with needless restrictions on stuff they've paid for.

DRM is ultimately, therefore, bad for the content producers themselves, and they will do themselves a big favour by finally getting this.

"All I can say is thank goodness for the Bayesian spam filter that we use here. In the last three years there has been only one legitimate e-mail that got caught in with the several hundred a day spams we get."